Baseball Philosophy Poems

if...
a philosophy may...

be
a full-loss-of-fee
or
a phi-loss-of-why
or
a full-loss-of-phi

and...a diction-airy be

as
a thesaurus that
be
as the-soar-us
or
as the-sour-us
or
as the-sore-us

then...use your mental wording

as came-bridged in the mind
that
a meant-all-diction can
sew
a conversation without
being
a converse...

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Anticipation is like hitting a single
Expectation is like hitting a double
Participation is like hitting a triple
Revelation is like hitting a homerun...

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Epigrams II

Sex Hex
by Michael R. Burch

Love's full of cute paradoxes
(and highly acute poxes).
 
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Midnight Stairclimber
by Michael R. Burch

Procreation
is at first great sweaty recreation,
then—long, long...

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Epigrams by Michael R. Burch

If brevity is the soul of wit
then brevity and levity 
are the whole of it.
—Michael R. Burch

To write an epigram, cram.
If...

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Hand Stand
Thumb Works With Digits to Grasp,
Beholding the Design Makes Me Gasp,
Quite Beholding a Tool Like a Jeweler Hasp.

Each Body Member Complex Beyond,
What We Take...

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...Sophia was a novelist,
and her first book, a surprise smash.
she rubbed elbows with litearti,
had pretensions to be high class.
They praised her novel so, so much,
even...

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Ted liked to ride the rodeo,
it made him feel alive inside,
but he never had that much luck
taking bulls on eight-second rides.
He wanted to reign like...

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“Life’s A Lot Like Baseball”
 
Life’s a lot like baseball, neither is a simple game.
Each is filled with the stuff of life.
Both, so much the...

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tradition has ended,poop has won
why do as we have always done?
new generations,new polemics
old ways pass without reflection

why do as we have always done?
we celebrate the...

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When you see the mouth elongating
And the tongue diving between the teeth
Like the tongue of a hunting chameleon
Then you are sure this is stolen laughter

When...

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Back to POETRY CONTEST Discussions
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A is for apple that I ate at lunch

B is for baseball I want to hit over fence a bunch

C is...

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To play as if today
Is your only chance.
Some say, “It’s just a game.”
Have they done the Victory Dance?

When hard-earned Victory
Was finally at hand,
Have they felt...

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REINCARNATION THINKING?

Life is like a coloring book
with few or many pages
filled with complex 
outlined images.

We are given a box of crayons
and are asked to color...

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when I was a child I played on a baseball  team
and my name on my jersey to me was my greatest dream
but as an...

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What does it take to step up to the plate?
Every time there is a mistake

Life seems unfair at times and you get out
Other times "HOMERUN"...

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